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Speaker 2: Now here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 3: I just realized we have back to back game day
Speaker 3: editions of Coffee and Company. Friday, we were out on
Speaker 3: the road at the Alex R. White Lawyers offices. I
Speaker 3: mean Alex White's office. I mean technically the company's Alex R.
Speaker 3: White Lawyers. To distract driver dot com. But you know,
Speaker 3: when I'm referring to just him, I think I can
Speaker 3: just say Alex White and you guys, you guys know
Speaker 3: what I mean. But we were there Friday for a
Speaker 3: game day because obviously Louisville and Boston College for a
Speaker 3: Friday night game that obviously didn't look good early, but
Speaker 3: a strong finish and a finish that I hope can
Speaker 3: really ignite this team in these last four games.
Speaker 2: And then today it's game Day.
Speaker 3: It's not a real game, but it's an exhibition, your
Speaker 3: second chance to get out and see Pat Kelsey coaching
Speaker 3: this team again. Not a real game. Spaulding, a Division
Speaker 3: III team is likely going to get beat down tonight.
Speaker 3: And maybe I shouldn't say that, because that sounds like
Speaker 3: it's going to be like you know, ugly and embarrassing.
Speaker 3: You know, that's I think most people go into these
Speaker 3: kind of games knowing that the host, right the Division
Speaker 3: I program usually is going to end up winning by
Speaker 3: a large margin, and it's just a good experience for
Speaker 3: everybody involved. You get a chance to if your Louisville
Speaker 3: go up against a different team than your own team
Speaker 3: every day, like you do every day in practice. And
Speaker 3: then for Spaulding, you know, you get a chance to,
Speaker 3: you know, play against a really good team, probably a
Speaker 3: team that's going to be insanely better than anybody else
Speaker 3: should play at that level of basketball throughout the season,
Speaker 3: and you probably get a good check on the way.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it pays to come in and
Speaker 3: play Louisville basketball on an exhibition, but I'm sure there's
Speaker 3: some type of a paycheck they're going to get on
Speaker 3: the way out. So tonight we will have postgame coverage
Speaker 3: as soon as it ends. We'll go live right here
Speaker 3: on Sports Talk seven ninety for the Louisville Basketball postgame Show.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we can hear from you guys and react to
Speaker 3: whatever it is that happens. I would imagine we'll be
Speaker 3: really doing the same postgame show as we did last Monday,
Speaker 3: which was Wow, that was awesome. This team's fun is
Speaker 3: hell to watch. They've got shooters all over the floor,
Speaker 3: and I forgot what it was like to watch your
Speaker 3: team dominate an exhibition opponent because it's been a while.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there'll be some other takeaways from there, and
Speaker 3: we'll get to this a little bit later on. There
Speaker 3: are a couple of things that you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: even say nitpicking, because if you say nitpicking, it actually
Speaker 3: is acting like you're being critical. I don't think there's
Speaker 3: really anything to take from the first exhibition game, and
Speaker 3: probably not tonight either. That's going to be like, hmm,
Speaker 3: I noticed this, we must be in really good shape here,
Speaker 3: or hmm, this looked a little questionable. Maybe we like
Speaker 3: you just don't know. I mean, you could try to
Speaker 3: say you're learning some things about your team in these games,
Speaker 3: but you're not. And it's nobody's fault that that's just
Speaker 3: the reality of it. But a couple of things that
Speaker 3: I that I would imagine will be a little different
Speaker 3: tonight compared to what we saw last week. I'll get
Speaker 3: to that coming up a little bit later on. But again,
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Speaker 3: two five seven seventy nine hundred. So a very full
Speaker 3: postgame show on Friday night, full lines throughout a lot
Speaker 3: of people, you know, kind of and this is what
Speaker 3: I love about the postgame shows. Whenever you have a
Speaker 3: you have a game playout, I mean, it's probably not
Speaker 3: good for the show because I feel like each time
Speaker 3: we start, I'm kind of just rambling trying to kind
Speaker 3: of form my overall opinion on what just happened, because
Speaker 3: it's so raw and in real time, like you know,
Speaker 3: usually what happens is if I'm doing the postgame show
Speaker 3: from my house, I watched the final snap and then
Speaker 3: I come downstairs and turn on the equipment and we roll.
Speaker 3: But the first few callers were essentially pleased with the
Speaker 3: way they were able to come back and win, and
Speaker 3: you were feeling good that you avoided what would have
Speaker 3: been your first bad loss of the season. But then
Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of clear there's issues still
Speaker 3: with this team, you know, And they played much better
Speaker 3: after that twenty to nothing deficiting Clearly they played much
Speaker 3: better in the second half. The defense was so much
Speaker 3: better in the second half, so like all those things
Speaker 3: are positives, but then you still see, like, you know,
Speaker 3: Tyler Shuck, who's been great all year, he actually for
Speaker 3: the first time he made some bone headed decisions that
Speaker 3: you just aren't used to. And it was like in
Speaker 3: the first half when they're down twenty to noth and
Speaker 3: you got the interception from Shock and then you got
Speaker 3: the fumble from Amari Huggins Bruce two veterans, it just
Speaker 3: hit me that that's who this team is, and maybe
Speaker 3: they are like, maybe we'll get to the end of
Speaker 3: the year and say, yeah, you should expect one of
Speaker 3: those types of plays every week, but I'm hopeful that
Speaker 3: the way in which they and look, sometimes it's just
Speaker 3: an other team making a play, or you can chock
Speaker 3: it up as bad luck, But when you've played as
Speaker 3: many games as Louisville has this year and you've had
Speaker 3: this many big mistakes and the way Jeff, I mean,
Speaker 3: Jeff just called him mistakes when he was talking about
Speaker 3: it on the broadcast the other night. But today in
Speaker 3: his press conference he mentioned, you know, we keep shooting
Speaker 3: ourselves in the foot. So look, if you've played eight
Speaker 3: games and you've shot yourself on the foot the way
Speaker 3: Louisville has consistently, Like again, doesn't mean you can't clean
Speaker 3: it up and fix it, but like, that's your identity,
Speaker 3: that's who you are. And they were still bad on
Speaker 3: Saturday until towards the end of the game, and there
Speaker 3: was one thing that happened late that I got really
Speaker 3: really like when he decided to throw And again, it's
Speaker 3: one of those things where if Jeff completes that, like,
Speaker 3: well he's not playing. So if Shuck was able to
Speaker 3: complete that pass too, I think it was Brooks and
Speaker 3: the ball hit him in his hands decently defended, But like,
Speaker 3: I don't think Jeff used it this way, but he
Speaker 3: could actually sit back and say, look, I called a
Speaker 3: play that they weren't expecting third and short. They probably
Speaker 3: think we're just gonna run the ball, kill as much
Speaker 3: clock as we can make them call their last time
Speaker 3: out or call another time out of whatever it is.
Speaker 3: But you know, it didn't work because they dropped the ball.
Speaker 3: Like it's just a it's not worth the risk because
Speaker 3: to be fair, he's right, like he did call a
Speaker 3: play that would to work, should have worked had had
Speaker 3: Ja Cory Brooks held on the ball. And again, I
Speaker 3: think defense was decent there. But like I I was
Speaker 3: starting to kind of come around to like, here we go.
Speaker 3: They're playing, even though it's not against a great competition,
Speaker 3: they're playing some really good football right now, and they're
Speaker 3: looking like they're I mean, they're bouncing around, they've got
Speaker 3: some swagger about themselves. They've got some confidence about themselves
Speaker 3: that a way really haven't seen all year. So you know,
Speaker 3: as soon as I'm starting to think, okay, like maybe
Speaker 3: we have turned the corner here if we if we
Speaker 3: can hold on and win, and then whenever they decided to,
Speaker 3: when Jeff decided to throw the ball instead of run
Speaker 3: it there and it gave Boston College a bunch of
Speaker 3: opportunities to potentially break our hearts with you know, a
Speaker 3: late hill Mary or something. I just you know, it
Speaker 3: would have been it would have been tough. But at
Speaker 3: the end, they didn't happen. And I think throughout the
Speaker 3: year for Louisville football, the overall result when it comes
Speaker 3: to the losses, has not been devastating, has not been
Speaker 3: oh my god, we we better sound the alarm. We
Speaker 3: got big problems here because you know, you're not losing
Speaker 3: to bad teams and you have chances late to win.
Speaker 3: So it's not like the result. Hey, you lost by
Speaker 3: a score at Notre Dame, you lost by a score
Speaker 3: to Miami, you lost by a score to SMU. Those
Speaker 3: aren't like positives, but the overall result, meaning the loss
Speaker 3: to those teams and how it and you know how
Speaker 3: it played out, nobody's looking at you and thinking, oh man,
Speaker 3: that's it embarrassing loss. I mean maybe some people are,
Speaker 3: but like, all three of these teams are top twenty
Speaker 3: teams right now. So I think we had the same
Speaker 3: you'll hear me out, I'll make sense and we'll get
Speaker 3: to the phone calls in just a second. But I
Speaker 3: think we had a similar scenario on Friday against Boston
Speaker 3: College it's just reversed. Meaning yeah, I'm not gonna act
Speaker 3: like it's the end of the world because you lost
Speaker 3: in South Bend by a score. But come on, let's
Speaker 3: think about what you had to do to even give
Speaker 3: Notre Dame the lead that they had with just snapping
Speaker 3: the ball over the punter's head, chuck running for fifty yards,
Speaker 3: then coughing it up to Corey Brooks balls in his
Speaker 3: hands and then he just pops out and they get
Speaker 3: an interception. Take it the other way, like, you had
Speaker 3: so many crucial mistakes that you feel like you take
Speaker 3: just one of those away, Like I felt like we
Speaker 3: were gonna be able to say at that point that
Speaker 3: was the flukey loss. Go back and look at all
Speaker 3: the mistakes the over may But then again, you know,
Speaker 3: same thing with Miami and SMU And again, these aren't
Speaker 3: terrible losses, but it's the fact that they keep shooting
Speaker 3: themselves in the foot that you know, made it so fresh.
Speaker 3: Trading the result by beating Boston College where you did
Speaker 3: not cover the spread, that's not a big result that
Speaker 3: we should be super happy about because again, you did
Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do. In fact, you didn't and
Speaker 3: when it comes to those that set the lines you
Speaker 3: didn't cover. I mean, I don't care about that. I'm
Speaker 3: as happy they won. But my point is, like I
Speaker 3: think the Loisle fans are feeling really good about themselves
Speaker 3: right now, or maybe Louisville players, I should say, And
Speaker 3: I get it. It's because it's not the result itself,
Speaker 3: it's everything that came with it. It's everything that transpired.
Speaker 3: And I think to be down twenty to nothing and
Speaker 3: these guys, you know, not quit keep fighting and find
Speaker 3: a way to win internally, if they choose, they can
Speaker 3: really use this as a big piece. It's the foundation
Speaker 3: piece essentially for you to finish strong this year. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean you can you know, you're guaranteed to go be Clemson.
Speaker 3: But like, if this Louisville team stops shooting themselves in
Speaker 3: the foot as much as they have this year Jeff
Speaker 3: Brahm's words myself meaning that's how he describes it, shooting
Speaker 3: themselves in the foot, like they would have a better record.
Speaker 3: Like because again it sounds crazy, you are what you're
Speaker 3: record says you are. But I think this team's good.
Speaker 3: They just make stupid mistakes at times, and nobody's perfect.
Speaker 3: But man, let's not act like Louisville hasn't seemingly made bigger,
Speaker 3: bone headed mistakes that have had an impact in how
Speaker 3: these things, how some of these games have finished?
Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 3: If you want to jump in and give us a call,
Speaker 3: we'll go to the phone lines now and we will
Speaker 3: welcome in. Jerry, Jerry, what's happening many?
Speaker 1: Nick? Last night I watched Duke Arizona State B Darner.
Speaker 1: I'm starving for. I'm starving for for games like that,
Speaker 1: you know, competition D one competition. I don't really understand
Speaker 1: why the heck we're playing Spaulding. I looked it up.
Speaker 1: You know, Roger Berkman's not the ad there anymore. I
Speaker 1: couldn't remember I looked it up.
Speaker 3: I forgot about Roger's connection there. Yeah, I totally forgot
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 1: But the gay that's there now is a U L
Speaker 1: grad who's who's done a lot of work with our
Speaker 1: athletic department. And I don't know who he if. It
Speaker 1: was a contractor kind of thing, but if you read
Speaker 1: his bow, he helped out with some NCAA regionals for
Speaker 1: U of L. YadA, YadA, all that stuff. But I
Speaker 1: just Spaulding is not considered a strong Division III program.
Speaker 3: No no, and Jerry so I talked about this at
Speaker 3: the very beginning of the show because I didn't understan
Speaker 3: mean Spaulding playing any D three school is rare for
Speaker 3: a program like Louisville for exhibition games. And I get it, like,
Speaker 3: usually you'll play a really good D two team or
Speaker 3: really good NAI team. But I mean, who would you
Speaker 3: want to play like instead of Spaulding, Like I you know,
Speaker 3: I think given the circumstances and given the last two
Speaker 3: exhibition seasons when you played like I kind of get
Speaker 3: while they're playing them this year.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, everybody's playing these exhibition charity games.
Speaker 2: I'm jealous though, why we're not.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we're not playing Cincinnati or Western
Speaker 1: or whatever. I mean, give me somebody, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm starving, you know, I've been waiting two years. I'm
Speaker 1: starving for some for good ball. I know what's around
Speaker 1: the corner. But we're still what two weeks away from
Speaker 1: Tennessee yep, okay, and then uh back to Duke for
Speaker 1: a second. It's really interesting, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be a good shooting team. Uh, it
Speaker 1: appears Kentucky is too. But then I watched Duke last night,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what their percentage. They filled it
Speaker 1: up many. They got shooters everywhere, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's a new thing across the country. Uh the word,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to have a ton of three point
Speaker 1: shooters to get deep in the tournament. But it seems
Speaker 1: like the games I've watched, everybody's shooting the hell out
Speaker 1: of the ball. It's really interesting. I heard Indiana did
Speaker 1: not shoot it well yesterday, which doesn't break my heart
Speaker 1: because I really want to beat them that game, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, Woodson's deep into his tenure, what four or
Speaker 1: five years in Kelsey's brand new. I would love to
Speaker 1: see us paym you know, kick kick them, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to win that game bad.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, I'm just I'm just down on this
Speaker 1: faulding game. I just I shake my head at it.
Speaker 1: You know, I look at it too, like, you know,
Speaker 1: what what if we what if we come out of
Speaker 1: the game a game like that with a dag on injury,
Speaker 1: you know what, what have we really what have we gained?
Speaker 1: And I don't see any game for us at all,
Speaker 1: even when you win by fifty or sixty or eighty
Speaker 1: or whatever. I just think it's a wasted day. In
Speaker 1: my opinion. I think you'd be better off practicing.
Speaker 3: Yep, Jerry, I appreciate the call man. Good to hear
Speaker 3: from you. So at the beginning of the show, and
Speaker 3: I mentioned how I was kind of getting jealous of
Speaker 3: you know, John John got to watch his team.
Speaker 2: He's a Hoosier.
Speaker 3: He got to watch Indiana and Tennessee play an exhibition
Speaker 3: game last night. And you know, I would love to
Speaker 3: see Louisville play maybe who Jerry mentioned, like a Cincinnati
Speaker 3: team like that would be cool, just to see where
Speaker 3: you stand and if you lose, it doesn't really, it
Speaker 3: doesn't hurt you. But then I thought, you know, let's
Speaker 3: let's let's consider the circumstances here for Louisville. Let's consider
Speaker 3: the fact that you know, you didn't beat exhibition of
Speaker 3: consistently the last two years. But you know, Jerry and
Speaker 3: I are a lot alike when it comes to certain things.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he feels that way, but like,
Speaker 3: you know, you've got the you got one talking head
Speaker 3: on one shoulder and the other on the other side,
Speaker 3: and one's like the good and the bad. One's the pessimist,
Speaker 3: one's the optimist. You know, Jerry hits my optimistic or
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, my pessimistic side in a major way because
Speaker 3: like everything he laid out, I totally like agree with.
Speaker 3: But then I thought, okay, well, let's be let's be grateful.
Speaker 3: Let's be grateful for the fact that we're no longer
Speaker 3: in a position to where we'd have to worry about
Speaker 3: losing these games. Now the injury thing. Look, you could
Speaker 3: look if Louisville played Duke tonight in a in a
Speaker 3: charity exhibition game and somebody got hurt, the same Thingking
Speaker 3: Be said, because it doesn't count no matter who you're playing.
Speaker 3: These games aren't real. They do not do anything for
Speaker 3: you as far as you know. Wins and losses, resume record,
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So the injury thing, like, you
Speaker 3: could say that about anything, but you are right, like,
Speaker 3: I don't know how much you really gain by beating
Speaker 3: a team like this by fifty or sixty.
Speaker 2: But you know.
Speaker 3: It's not put it this way, It's nice that you're
Speaker 3: gonna have Morehead State before you get to Tennessee, because
Speaker 3: obviously Morehead State, you know, and that's that's something to
Speaker 3: you know, to get to next week. And by the way,
Speaker 3: that game is a week from the day. The actual
Speaker 3: opener will be a week from the day when Louisville
Speaker 3: takes on Morehead State at the UMP Center. Again a
Speaker 3: real game then, but Morehead State is going to be
Speaker 3: miles and miles better than everybody you have played competitively
Speaker 3: up to this point, including the exhibitions in the Bahamas
Speaker 3: and these two exhibition opponents here in the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, so you know, you got to be ready
Speaker 3: to make that big step up. But look, I actually
Speaker 3: think what Jerry said is not off like you know,
Speaker 3: but I have no put it this way. I'm jealous
Speaker 3: that that other teams are getting these exhibitions against legitimate
Speaker 3: teams that you know, they're getting a chance to early
Speaker 3: on see where their team stacks up. However, you know,
Speaker 3: as far as these exhibitions that are scheduled but you
Speaker 3: know are part of your schedule every year, like you
Speaker 3: really can't gain a whole lot in any of them.
Speaker 3: I mean again, like Louisville lost these games last year like,
Speaker 3: so whoever they bring in in the first year post
Speaker 3: Kenny Payne, I don't care if they bring in Seneca
Speaker 3: High School and let Louisville beat them up, just so
Speaker 3: we can finally say we went through too. Because A
Speaker 3: there's not a D two nai school out there as
Speaker 3: far as exhibition that you would say, Okay, that's a
Speaker 3: good tune up for us. It would have to be
Speaker 3: one of these charity exhibitions. And I don't know why
Speaker 3: Louisville isn't in one. But if they ever do want
Speaker 3: to take part of these moving forward, I think it'd
Speaker 3: be awesome. The more basketball we get around here, the
Speaker 3: happier we are. All right, let's go to Dave. Dave,
Speaker 3: you are on Sports Talk seven ninety. How we doing
Speaker 3: this afternoon, sir?
Speaker 4: Oh? Pretty good. I enjoyed the game Friday night. But
Speaker 4: it's like you said, I agree with you. I think
Speaker 4: you el is pretty good, except for it seems like
Speaker 4: every game they make at least one mistake. That's just
Speaker 4: just the bofle Now. Just about every game app scene
Speaker 4: this year, the receivers from the other team are wide open.
Speaker 4: The guy on the telecast Friday night lost to college
Speaker 4: who is it where? Yeah, Andre Ware, Yeah, how many
Speaker 4: busted coverage are you? You know who's alis? I think
Speaker 4: is coaching these guys? Do they just not know what
Speaker 4: to do? Or is he just giving him bad instruction
Speaker 4: matters because before the seasons, Dirty Place was bragging a man,
Speaker 4: how great that cornerbacks was, Well you have to see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Dave, I think these players obviously have to
Speaker 3: be held accountable as well. But I think when you
Speaker 3: come out of like a time out and somebody's just
Speaker 3: you know, ends up getting wide open and it's like
Speaker 3: a busted play from your defense, Like I know, it's
Speaker 3: everybody top down that's got to be held accountable. But
Speaker 3: I think that screams you're not being coached correctly, Like
Speaker 3: that's not that Hey, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3: Boston College had a receiver that could just go make
Speaker 3: a play on you, Like, No, you're putting these guys
Speaker 3: out there and they don't know what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, that's on your
Speaker 3: that's you. That's your job as the defensive coordinator to
Speaker 3: make sure that they know what the plan is and
Speaker 3: they execute. Now, if they get out there and they
Speaker 3: don't make plays and they're in the position to do so,
Speaker 3: then it's more so on them. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: the defense finished strong. But yes, you're right. I mean
Speaker 3: the two scores the Boston College have you're thinking, like,
Speaker 3: how in the world does that happen?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, And now the thing is the blocking by
Speaker 4: the offensive line on on the run game is not
Speaker 4: bad at all, but it's just the past protection. I mean,
Speaker 4: we you know, like Boston College. I don't think their
Speaker 4: defensive front four is all a great but still, I
Speaker 4: mean they were getting pressure on our quarterback the whole night.
Speaker 4: I mean, our guys just don't seem to block very well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And again, and I appreciate the call David all circles
Speaker 3: back to they just haven't they haven't really put it
Speaker 3: all together yet. They they've not really been in sync
Speaker 3: this year. And I think it started to come together
Speaker 3: towards the end of that game against Boston College. And
Speaker 3: you know, I mean Boston College scored on the first
Speaker 3: drive after halftime, and when you're down twenty to nothing,
Speaker 3: that alone, I mean that's it's like, man, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be tough for you to come back. I mean I
Speaker 3: thought that there was really no chance they could win.
Speaker 3: Not just because like, hey, Boston College is so good
Speaker 3: and Louisville is so terrible. But again, just look at
Speaker 3: the circumstances.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: You are down twenty to nothing on the road in
Speaker 3: the game that was kind of supposed to be there
Speaker 3: for you to get right and yet they fought, they fought,
Speaker 3: they battled back, and then at the beginning of the
Speaker 3: third quarter, Boston College came out and scored, and that
Speaker 3: was another And again that's just the pessimist in me,
Speaker 3: but I thought to myself, man, they were clawing back,
Speaker 3: but that score from BC right out of half, that
Speaker 3: could really derail the momentum you were establishing. But it didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean again, Boston College scored at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the third quarter. After that, four punts and two turnovers
Speaker 3: on two tod they turned it over on down twice,
Speaker 3: like the defense really stepped up. And again, I know
Speaker 3: Boston College didn't great, trust me, but still for these
Speaker 3: guys to in that situation be able to find a
Speaker 3: way to get it done doesn't mean they're great. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean we may not see the same sloppy team in
Speaker 3: Clemson this weekend. But I'm choosing to view this, and
Speaker 3: I hope they do as well. Not that I'm here
Speaker 3: to like give them great advice and they should listen
Speaker 3: to me, but I kind of felt like they came
Speaker 3: together as a team that night with that comeback, and
Speaker 3: as I said a moment ago, throughout the year, your
Speaker 3: results themselves have not been alarming in.
Speaker 2: A bad way.
Speaker 3: You've lost to three good teams and you were within
Speaker 3: a score and really know you could have won those
Speaker 3: games had you not shut yourself on the foot. Well,
Speaker 3: this game against Boston College, the result itself is nothing
Speaker 3: substantial when it comes to value, because it's Boston College.
Speaker 3: You do what you're supposed to do. You won a
Speaker 3: game you were expected to win. But how it all
Speaker 3: came together, I think is a real positive sign. It
Speaker 3: can be a positive sign for this group. The losses
Speaker 3: weren't something we got to lose our mind about, but
Speaker 3: the way they did it, with the multiple mistakes, it's
Speaker 3: just it was, you know, it's frustrating, But they got
Speaker 3: Clemson on Saturday, and we'll find out pretty quickly if
Speaker 3: they really really did grow and you know, kind of
Speaker 3: come together overall from that comeback performance against Boston College.
Speaker 3: Now that didn't mean if they play well or guaranteed
Speaker 3: to win, but wouldn't be shocked if they do, because again,
Speaker 3: I think loul was a good team. The record doesn't
Speaker 3: back me up necessarily, but I've seen enough to where
Speaker 3: I feel like if they do clean some things up,
Speaker 3: like I like this team, all right, quick break, We'll
Speaker 3: come back on the other side, keep it rolling along.
Speaker 3: It's Coffee and company. Feel about Thornton's right here on
Speaker 3: Sports Talk seven ninety. I feel like we went back to, uh,
Speaker 3: we went back to not really knowing what the hell
Speaker 3: to expect in the NFL. I mean, I thought the
Speaker 3: early part of the season, and it is still relatively
Speaker 3: early in the NFL season, but like early on, like
Speaker 3: it was good, it was tough to know who was decent,
Speaker 3: who was average, who was terrible, who was elite, And
Speaker 3: then it kind of started even out a little bit
Speaker 3: to where I think heading into this past NFL week,
Speaker 3: which I guess concludes tonight with a Monday night football game,
Speaker 3: that we started to get a little bit more of
Speaker 3: an idea of Okay, here's who we know is really bad,
Speaker 3: here's who we know is probably pretty good. And then
Speaker 3: you got a bunch of teams that are kind of
Speaker 3: right there in the middle. But some results from yesterday.
Speaker 3: I mean the Rams beating the Vice that was of
Speaker 3: course on Thursday, that was not expected. I mean the Browns,
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe they just are much better without Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 3: Jameis Winston is preaching before and after the game and
Speaker 3: going out there and leading his team to a victory
Speaker 3: over Lamar and the Ravens.
Speaker 2: That was tough to see.
Speaker 3: I mean, not a I mean the Ravens started oh
Speaker 3: to two on the season and then from there started
Speaker 3: to not only look really good, they started to look
Speaker 3: like the clear best team in the NFL. And they
Speaker 3: may still be. Maybe they just had a bad day.
Speaker 3: But you know, for all this talk about how good
Speaker 3: the Ravens are, they're five and three and three and
Speaker 3: two in their division, like they don't really have I
Speaker 3: mean again, they get in the playoffs and they play well,
Speaker 3: and they make it all the way to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: You know, easier said than done, Like you know they
Speaker 3: had the ability to do that, but you do want
Speaker 3: to mess around, like you starting oh to two with
Speaker 3: losses to one was the Chiefs, which of course isn't
Speaker 3: a bad loss, but that's now, it works, right, there's
Speaker 3: no strength to schedule in the NFL. You win or
Speaker 3: you lose, that's it. But the loss to the Ravens
Speaker 3: was or sorry, the Raiders was a real head scratcher.
Speaker 3: And then you know that's just the loss you want
Speaker 3: to avoid if you're Baltimore, because you are going to
Speaker 3: play much better teams than Cleveland. But I give Cleveland
Speaker 3: a lot of credit. I mean, Jameis Winston is like
Speaker 3: a he's like a movie character, like he he and
Speaker 3: I say this sincerely. I didn't want to say yesterday
Speaker 3: because you know, he's funny to me, but like you know,
Speaker 3: he's not a threat to Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson's best quarterback,
Speaker 3: best player in the NFL right now, I think, and
Speaker 3: yesterday didn't change that. But I didn't know if it'd
Speaker 3: be a good look if I was, you know, talking
Speaker 3: about how funny Jameis Winston is as he's given Lamar
Speaker 3: and the Ravens a tough loss, but like he needs
Speaker 3: to be a professional wrestler after he gets tim playing
Speaker 3: football just to work the mic. I mean, I know
Speaker 3: you don't watch wrestling a lot a lot, John or
Speaker 3: maybe ever, but like Jamis just doing Jamis stuff is
Speaker 3: really funny and entertaining, and like, I just thought he
Speaker 3: was going to be in the league forever because he's
Speaker 3: good energy, good positive guy, basically like the team preacher.
Speaker 3: And sometimes he's got a real good message that he
Speaker 3: wants to share with people. And apparently he's like a
Speaker 3: really really easy guy to like. He and he's shown
Speaker 3: that in recent years. But you know, for him to
Speaker 3: actually go out and play really good twenty seven to
Speaker 3: forty one three three four yards and three touchdowns, Like
Speaker 3: what if he did become like this great quarterback moving
Speaker 3: forward and the Browns would have gone from having one
Speaker 3: proven backup that should have been the starter that they
Speaker 3: shouldn't have got rid of. That's Joe Flacco, which I'll
Speaker 3: get to him in a moment, and then it's Jamis
Speaker 3: backing up Deshaun Watson, and Deshaun Watson stunk since he's
Speaker 3: been in Cleveland, Like he's not like take away the
Speaker 3: fact that the guy cannot you know, cannot mean he
Speaker 3: can't go a week without somebody coming from years behind,
Speaker 3: from you know, years later saying he was inappropriate with
Speaker 3: them getting a massage, and then you know he just
Speaker 3: I mean, the guy's addicted to happy endings in a
Speaker 3: bad way to where you know he's seems like a
Speaker 3: real scumbag. But like even when he was in Cleveland
Speaker 3: dealing with the off the field stuff, he's stunk, He
Speaker 3: wasn't good, but they invested so much money in him,
Speaker 3: it's like, hey, he's our guy. Well, now you know
Speaker 3: he's out for the year, And like, if Jameis Winston
Speaker 3: ends up, I mean, here up aut it this way?
Speaker 3: I don't even I don't know what the exit strategy
Speaker 3: is for Cleveland and with that contract, because it's just
Speaker 3: one of the worst contracts. She may be the worst
Speaker 3: contract ever in the history of sports. But even if
Speaker 3: you know, you gotta cut your losses, like you can't
Speaker 3: keep rolling that guy, even if he's healthy next year.
Speaker 3: You can't roll him out there again and expect your
Speaker 3: franchise to like continue to support you.
Speaker 2: But in a weird way, I was happy to see.
Speaker 3: Jamis have that moment, but I wish it would have
Speaker 3: come against you know, somebody not named the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: And how about my.
Speaker 3: Cults, completely unserious franchise, unserious, inept The only time we've
Speaker 3: ever been good is because we got lucky and we
Speaker 3: drafted quarterbacks that you know, are elite, Peyton Manning and
Speaker 3: then Andrew Luck and then after that we've been decent
Speaker 3: here and there, but like we're not a threat to anybody.
Speaker 3: We don't even know how to tank. We would prefer
Speaker 3: to be in the middle. And you know, just say
Speaker 3: we're not the worst and maybe we'll get to the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Oh and then you lose to a winless Jacksonville Jaguars team.
Speaker 3: That's the only result that could have kept you out
Speaker 3: of the playoff playoffs two years ago.
Speaker 2: And that's what you did.
Speaker 3: Well, then you do have a really bad year where
Speaker 3: it's quite clear you're gonna have to you know, gonna
Speaker 3: you're gonna get an early draft pick.
Speaker 2: And who do you take?
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson a quarterback who has never been good as quarterback,
Speaker 3: Like it's one thing that's like, oh he sucks or
Speaker 3: he's great like that. There's levels to that, like people
Speaker 3: don't really know. I mean, but when I say he's
Speaker 3: never been successful, like he's he's somebody being able to
Speaker 3: throw the ball a mile and being able to run
Speaker 3: as quick as he can and have the athleticism that
Speaker 3: he has, Like, that's impressive. There probably aren't many people
Speaker 3: walking this planet that are as gifted athletically and physically
Speaker 3: as Anthony Richardson. Doesn't make him a good football player,
Speaker 3: doesn't make him a good quarterback.
Speaker 2: And he's shown you that.
Speaker 3: He had a record as a starting quarterback in high
Speaker 3: school of two and eight two and eight ends up
Speaker 3: at Florida, never really became their full time starter until
Speaker 3: his last year there, couldn't beat Vandy in the games
Speaker 3: he started at Florida, had a losing record as a
Speaker 3: starting quarterback. And the Colts invested in that guy, and
Speaker 3: he's not good enough.
Speaker 2: We all know that.
Speaker 3: And then the guy that is your franchise, I mean
Speaker 3: that's the most I mean again, him getting a second
Speaker 3: contract and then you're paying him. That is where you
Speaker 3: could say he's your biggest investment. But let's be real,
Speaker 3: you're only not investing in him Moore now because he's
Speaker 3: on his rookie deal. And I don't think the Colts
Speaker 3: love where they're going with him, at least they shouldn't.
Speaker 3: But like, regardless of what his salary is, let's be honest,
Speaker 3: the Colts don't get many picks that are that early,
Speaker 3: and this is who they chose, and it was a
Speaker 3: terrible decision. And I mean I want him to tank
Speaker 3: and try again and go get a quarterback once more,
Speaker 3: Like why not? It's such an important position, and this guy,
Speaker 3: like you're throwing him out there and he's not ready
Speaker 3: and like I don't know. I mean, yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 3: get some experience. He's essentially cutting his teeth as a quarterback.
Speaker 3: But does anybody see anything that tells you this guy's
Speaker 3: going to be able to lead you to a deep
Speaker 3: playoff run anytime in the next five years or something.
Speaker 3: Look again, I know a lot can change, but you
Speaker 3: don't get too the NFL and start as a quarterback
Speaker 3: and it's all about potential, Like I thought, the NFL
Speaker 3: was about needing to win. And it would have made
Speaker 3: more sense if they drafted this guy and they were
Speaker 3: not pressured into playing him right away, and if they
Speaker 3: were comfortable using a guy like Flacco or Minshew for
Speaker 3: two years straight and then seeing if this guy is
Speaker 3: able to cut his teeth, because he's the one guy
Speaker 3: that like he has never had any experience as a
Speaker 3: quarterback from high school level on, or he has been
Speaker 3: successful at that job. Now he has that job for
Speaker 3: an NFL franchise, and he can carry himself any certain way.
Speaker 3: He seems likable. How can you have confidence in your
Speaker 3: ability to be good at a job that you've never
Speaker 3: been good at at any level? Like that explains why,
Speaker 3: Like he's never been a part of a team that
Speaker 3: is good because of his quarterback play, which is why
Speaker 3: you end up with your second year quarterback. There was
Speaker 3: a top five pick for you saying he took himself
Speaker 3: out of the game in the third quarter because he
Speaker 3: was tired.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, tired.
Speaker 3: That was a lot of runner right there.
Speaker 4: Well I did, and I don't think I was gonna
Speaker 4: be able to go that next place, So I just
Speaker 4: you know, I just told saying you needed a break
Speaker 4: right there.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's context that would be valuable to know
Speaker 3: as far as like how that whole thing truly played out.
Speaker 3: But I mean, if you came to your coach and
Speaker 3: he was like he was like with you, and you
Speaker 3: were just telling him, like, man, you're gassed, like he
Speaker 3: probably would have called time out for you, but like
Speaker 3: for you to come out of the game and just say, hey,
Speaker 3: I need a break, send somebody else in like what.
Speaker 3: That's not professional at all. That's not how this works.
Speaker 3: And again, I just I wish they would. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because of the market that
Speaker 3: they're in, but both my Pacers and my Colts are
Speaker 3: afraid to really suck. And yeah, who wants to suck? Right,
Speaker 3: nobody's having fun, your fans, your players, your organization. Like,
Speaker 3: it's never good when you're at the bottom of the bottom,
Speaker 3: but sometimes that's part of the process to give back up.
Speaker 3: And the Pacers and the Colts never attract really good
Speaker 3: players in free agency ever, Therefore, they need to build
Speaker 3: their franchise with really good investments, good draft picks. And
Speaker 3: I think this has gone so wrong with Richardson that, like,
Speaker 3: I mean, he was ten of thirty two yesterday. You
Speaker 3: know how hard that is to do in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Most NFL play callers aren't going to put a quarterback
Speaker 3: in a position to have that kind of a stat line.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that the Colts put him in
Speaker 3: a bad position. I'm saying they probably asked him to
Speaker 3: do things that, like any other quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 3: should be able to do with you know, the difficulty
Speaker 3: of throw and he still couldn't do it. He's not
Speaker 3: our only problem, but I just can't believe that they
Speaker 3: that they drafted him. And you know, hate to say
Speaker 3: I told you so, because I really didn't want them
Speaker 3: to draft him, and I didn't want the Colts to
Speaker 3: be in this position. But like he screamed, avoid, I
Speaker 3: mean he didn't yell at but everything about his college
Speaker 3: career and his story screamed on draft night, avoid this guy.
Speaker 3: This will be the one where somebody thinks they found
Speaker 3: something special, some kind of Lamar Jackson thing.
Speaker 2: No, that's not what this is at all. All right,
Speaker 2: As far as who.
Speaker 3: Is tonight's game, Oh Giants, Steelers.
Speaker 2: That should be a decent game.
Speaker 3: Well, Giants think Steelers have probably been the best team
Speaker 3: as far as record that nobody's talking about as like
Speaker 3: a really you know, contender, because they've not looked good.
Speaker 3: But that's kind of the Steeler way. However, when Russell
Speaker 3: Wilson got rolling in his debut with them last week,
Speaker 3: when they turned it on and just beat the brakes
Speaker 3: off of whoever they played, I forget who it was,
Speaker 3: they look really good. So maybe if they if they
Speaker 3: keep winning and they look more so like they did
Speaker 3: last week, maybe they start to get viewed as a
Speaker 3: team that should be considered, you know, a contender to
Speaker 3: make it to the Super Bowl. I mean, we're a
Speaker 3: long way away from that, but they're five and two
Speaker 3: right now, two and one, and again they're coming off
Speaker 3: their best game of the season. When Russell Wilson, he's
Speaker 3: easy to make fun of, Like, I get it, but
Speaker 3: I always felt like if they're like if there was
Speaker 3: some world where Russell Wilson got a chance post Denver
Speaker 3: and he ended up finding success and like it worked
Speaker 3: out to where he had a you know, four or
Speaker 3: five year run where he's playing good football and the
Speaker 3: team's succeeding. One of the scenarios where I could have
Speaker 3: seen that happening is with Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh because
Speaker 3: as much as Russell's corny, I think he's about his business.
Speaker 3: Like I think he's pretty compatible with Mike Tomlin as
Speaker 3: far as like we want our brand to be that
Speaker 3: we work our ass off, and you know, I think
Speaker 3: Russell's always worked hard.
Speaker 2: He just you know, he.
Speaker 3: Really the perception of him changed so much when he
Speaker 3: started doing like the weird video stuff like he did
Speaker 3: the SOBA commercial that was weird. He did the unlimited
Speaker 3: thing or mister Unlimited like that was cringe to the
Speaker 3: to the levels I didn't know existed. And then you know,
Speaker 3: he came out with Denver and they were terrible. But
Speaker 3: I still feel like there wasn't enough out there for
Speaker 3: you to believe that he was like a guy that
Speaker 3: shouldn't still be in the NFL. So you know, I'm happy.
Speaker 3: I happen to think that the Steelers were wise to
Speaker 3: take this guy whenever nobody else wanted him, because I
Speaker 3: think the risk was pretty low and the reward. I mean,
Speaker 3: if he gets back to where he was towards the
Speaker 3: end of his days in Seattle, like that's a good
Speaker 3: enough quarterback to where if you're pretty sharp everywhere else,
Speaker 3: you could be a good team. All right, quick break,
Speaker 3: we'll come back on the other side. Wrap up the
Speaker 3: four o'clock hour, keep this thing rolling along. We'll talk
Speaker 3: a little more.
Speaker 2: Louislle hoops.
Speaker 3: Is they're an action tonight taken on spauling in an
Speaker 3: exhibition game. We might have to talk about prices for
Speaker 3: this game, then, I because that continues to be a conversation,
Speaker 3: Like if you just go fire up an app and
Speaker 3: try to find tickets and you see what it costs,
Speaker 3: Like it's an easy answer for you, Like should I go? Hmm,
Speaker 3: let me look up tickets. Uh, yeah, I'm not going.
Speaker 3: But I don't know whose fault that is, Like, I
Speaker 3: don't think that's you have l fault. I'll explain coming
Speaker 3: up on the other side. Keep it locked right here
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Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So I'm at a website right now called ticketmaster dot com,
Speaker 3: and I'm looking for two tickets to tonight's exhibition. And
Speaker 3: I'm just going to pick section upper level, section three
Speaker 3: oh seven, and in section three oh seven I can
Speaker 3: purchase two tickets and they are fifty dollars a piece.
Speaker 2: Is that with fees or it before?
Speaker 3: Let me cook next, because I hate talking about attendance
Speaker 3: and whatnot, just because I feel like it's it's really
Speaker 3: a no. I mean, I guess a lot of things
Speaker 3: we talk about around here are no when, like you
Speaker 3: just you know, people are gonna disagree with you or
Speaker 3: agree with you whatever, it doesn't matter. But like I
Speaker 3: just I think I have such a different opinion on
Speaker 3: attendance than most And it's not because hey, mine is
Speaker 3: correct and I just can't entertain anybody who thinks differently.
Speaker 2: Trust me.
Speaker 3: I don't want it to sound like that, but like
Speaker 3: I understand why people don't go to games. I don't
Speaker 3: think that that's U of L's fault. I don't think
Speaker 3: that makes them a bad fan. I just think it's
Speaker 3: it's how we have evolved over time as sports fans
Speaker 3: and how we choose to spend our money.
Speaker 2: You know. I think the days of like the internal.
Speaker 3: Mindset of a fan that like, I'm a really big fan,
Speaker 3: but if I don't go to every game, can I
Speaker 3: say I'm a really big fan like that? I think
Speaker 3: that used to be the way it went long, long,
Speaker 3: long ago, and over time, like now you can. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just not the way it is anymore. And we
Speaker 3: have a twenty two thousand seed arena. There's not gonna
Speaker 3: be close to twenty two thousand people that want to
Speaker 3: pay to go see Louisville play Spaulding tonight. Like that's
Speaker 3: just not reality. Like, yeah, I'd love to see this
Speaker 3: place eighteen thousand plus, but like that's not real world
Speaker 3: and everybody knows that, and I think there are people
Speaker 3: that like want that to be a reality that it
Speaker 3: just not, but it's not going to be and it's
Speaker 3: really not anybody's fault.
Speaker 1: Yeh.
Speaker 3: Would there be more fans there if they weren't coming
Speaker 3: off of two disastrous seasons? Absolutely, But I think even
Speaker 3: if they were coming off of a solid season, let's say,
Speaker 3: I don't know, let's say Chris mac was still here
Speaker 3: and they were, you know, a consistent second weekend team
Speaker 3: since he got here with one run to like the
Speaker 3: Elite eight, and you were playing Spaulding tonight, Yes, you'd
Speaker 3: have more people there than you probably are going to
Speaker 3: this evening, but it wouldn't be substantial. And also, here's
Speaker 3: another thing, Like I mean, what does it matter? Like again,
Speaker 3: I know that UFL always wants people to buy tickets
Speaker 3: and go to games, like and I hope people do.
Speaker 2: Like I'm never going to try to discourage.
Speaker 3: Somebody from going, but I just hate using this platform
Speaker 3: to like talk about there being an issue within the
Speaker 3: fan base that needs to be corrected because people aren't
Speaker 3: going to pay one hundred bucks plus parking, plus drinks
Speaker 3: plus whatever to go watch Louisville play Spaulding. Like it's
Speaker 3: just you know what I mean, Like, I just can't.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't relate to those that think this is some
Speaker 3: kind of an issue. Now again, the pricing is a problem.
Speaker 3: Now what I don't know, And I can't sign into
Speaker 3: my ticket master to see what it does for you
Speaker 3: real quick, John, Like when I go to click on
Speaker 3: you know, two tickets in section again, like so these
Speaker 3: are looks like these seats like standard all age tickets
Speaker 3: says fifty dollars plus fees, So I guess that does
Speaker 3: include the ticket. So two tickets to go see Louisville
Speaker 3: play Spaulding in the upper level but in not even
Speaker 3: like front row upper level. We're talking like mid level
Speaker 3: upper level with fees, it's a hud Bucks Like that's like.
Speaker 2: Again, that's insane. Who would do that?
Speaker 3: Like again, if you have the ability and you know
Speaker 3: it's expensive, but you're sacrificing so again, I've already made
Speaker 3: a mistake, which is why I don't It's why I
Speaker 3: don't like talking about this because I just said something
Speaker 3: that is mean, like who would pay that?
Speaker 2: Because again, like.
Speaker 3: People who have the money, people who think that's people
Speaker 3: spend their money whatever they want. I just know that
Speaker 3: for me, that'd be a tough ask to spend that,
Speaker 3: not including parking, not including one beer.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna drink more than one beer.
Speaker 3: If I'm going to a game with tickets, better make
Speaker 3: sure you've got plenty of bush light there. If I'm coming,
Speaker 3: my kid's gonna want nachos, right or the hot dog
Speaker 3: or something like Again, like it's that's a lot of
Speaker 3: money for someone like myself. I'm sure to some of
Speaker 3: you out there, you're thinking that's nothing.
Speaker 2: I especially since that on lunch today. If you're a
Speaker 2: family that's wanting to go to like one or two
Speaker 2: games a year and you know it's going to be
Speaker 2: that expensive, regardless, that's a no brainer. To not pick this.
Speaker 3: One, and like you can find a cheaper ticket with
Speaker 3: a different service that doesn't have as many fees added.
Speaker 3: Like I know there's many of them vivid seats, and
Speaker 3: I don't know how cheaper they are a ticpic, Like
Speaker 3: there's all kinds of these resale ticket apps out there.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: U of L is not Ticketmaster, but that's their ticket partner.
Speaker 3: I think, like when you go to when you go
Speaker 3: to Louisville's website and like try to purchase tickets from
Speaker 3: their website, I'm pretty sure it directs you directly to
Speaker 3: a ticketmaster, you know, ticketmaster link. So unfortunately, even though
Speaker 3: it's not really ul's fault, there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: that are just gonna put this on UFL. Look, I
Speaker 3: guess it is their fault. They have some level of
Speaker 3: control on what a ticket costs. But as far as
Speaker 3: like fees become a ticketmaster, that's just that awful company
Speaker 3: that is Ticketmaster.
Speaker 2: But yeah, as far as like.
Speaker 3: I mean again, you could find a cheaper ticket than
Speaker 3: what I just referenced. But still, like I get why
Speaker 3: people don't go to these kind of games, but I
Speaker 3: also get why as fans you wish it was crowded,
Speaker 3: And I get why u OFL is going to always
Speaker 3: do whatever they can to make money from people coming
Speaker 3: to games, and clearly this price point is what they
Speaker 3: have to do for it to be a financial for
Speaker 3: you know, for it to make financial sense for him.
Speaker 3: All Right, we got to well, no, we got this
Speaker 3: show's flying by. I thought it was about to be
Speaker 3: four o'clock. No, it's five o'clock. So we'll fit as
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